Server and desktop virtualisation are key technologies driving forward today’s data centres. They bring huge efficiencies to IT that just weren’t possible in an all-physical world. But, delivering ...

Data stores are getting fat. In fact, the amount of stored data worldwide is heading toward a corpulent zettabyte in the next 10 years, with no end in sight. A storage crisis looms, experts say. IT ...

Facebook has just short of 2.4 billion active users and sees 350 million photo uploads a day, plus more than 500,000 comments posted every minute. How does it track, monitor and gain value from this ...

Connectivity patterns of neocortex exhibit several odd properties: for example, most neighboring excitatory neurons do not connect, which seems curiously wasteful. Brunel's elegant theoretical ...